Editing Laurel and Hardy (section)

===Leo McCarey===
Screenwriter, director and producer for Hal Roach Studios, [[Leo McCarey]] recounted a story on the NBC television program [[This Is Your Life (American franchise)|This Is Your Life]] on December 1, 1954 of how a leg of lamb brought Laurel and Hardy together.<ref>{{YouTube|id=ZisHJguKKhw&t|time=15m37s}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newsfromme.com/pov/col131/ |title=Point of View: Laurel & Hardy Part 1 |last=Evanier |first=Mark |date=May 23, 1997 |website= |publisher= |access-date=October 22, 2024 |quote=He was cooking a leg of lamb when some scalding gravy splashed on his arm, taking him out of commission.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishamerica.com/2018/12/stan-ollie-and-the-irish/ |title=Stan & Ollie and the Irish |last=Lewis |first=Dave |date=February 1, 2009 |website= |publisher= |access-date=October 22, 2024 |quote=Hardy, who was known for his hearty appetite, burned himself while cooking a leg of lamb, so badly that he couldn't finish a film he was working on with McCarey, who asked Laurel, who at the time was working as a gag writer at the studio, to step in.}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=Babe (Oliver Hardy) was cooking a leg of lamb and for some reason he left his arm in the oven too long or something and he got it so badly blistered that we had to cut down his part in the next picture. So we decided to put Stan in the picture to bolster up the comedy; and so when we saw the two of them on the screen together we decided: "There's a real team." And from that time on they really went places. All on account of - ''Hardy had a little lamb.''|author=Leo McCarey}}